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Good heavens! all his talk in their hearing had been of Dodd; and Kennet and he between them had let out the very thing he wanted to conceal, especially from Dodd's relations. He gazed at them, and turned hot to the very forehead. Then, not knowing what to do or say, and being after all but a clever boy, not a cool, "never unready" man of the world, he slipped away, blushing.
To soften the rigor of their fate, after some years' imprisonment, he restored them to their liberty, and conferred on them a pension, with which they retired, and languished out old age in infamy and obscurity. * State Trials, vol. i. p. 230. State Trials, vol. i. p. 242. * Kennet, p. 699. Coke, Weldon, etc.
In the common course of affairs, government could be conducted without their assistance; and when their concurrence became necessary to the measures of the crown, it was, generally speaking, except in times of great faction and discontent, obtained without much difficulty. * Kennet, p. 696. Journ. 20th May, 1606 * Journ. 5th April, 1606. Kennet, p 676. v King James's Works, p. 509.
Nay, Hollis was so industrious to continue his meritorious distress, that when one offered to bail him, he would not yield to the rule of court, and be himself bound with his friend. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 684, 691. Whitlocke, p. *13. * Kennet vol. iii. p. 49. Rushworth, vol. v. p. 440.
But had the privileges of parliament been at that time exactly ascertained, or royal power fully limited, could such an imagination ever have been entertained by him, as to think that his proclamations could regulate parliamentary elections? Winwood, vol. ii. p. 18, 19. * Journ. 26th March, 1604 Journ. 3d April, 1604. v See note RR, at the end of the volume. v* Camden, in Kennet, p. 375.
He brightened at sight of his doge, and asked him warmly if he had heard the news. "No: what? Nothing wrong, I hope?" "Why, two of our men are ploughed; that is all," said Kennet, affecting with withering irony to undervalue his intelligence. "Confound it, Kennet, how you frightened me! I was afraid there was some screw loose with the crew."
Nay, a Kennet trout is far harder to catch and kill than the capricious salmon, which will often take a fly, however clumsy be the man who casts it. There is a profane theory that several members of the Hungerford Club never catch the trout they pay so much to have the privilege of trying to capture.
But during all previous centuries, since the Dark Ages, Reading was potentially, as it is still actually, civilian; and, indeed, it is as the typical great town of the Thames Valley that it will be treated later in these pages. The long and narrow peninsula between the Kennet and the Thames was an ideal place for defence.
We are now in the valley of the Kennet, which here turns east after an infant course under the long line of Hackpen Hill and through the out-of-the-way villages of Winterbourne Basset, Monkton and Berwick Basset. The "winter bourne" is actually the baby Kennet, that in dry summers hardly makes an appearance. Berwick has a family connexion with Wooton, over the hills and far away to the north-west.
Pope has written a bad verse in the Windsor Forest: "And Kennet swift for silver Eels renown'd." The word renown'd does not present the idea of a visible object to the mind, and is thence prosaic. But change this line thus, "And Kennet swift, where silver Graylings play." and it becomes poetry, because the scenery is then brought before the eye. B. This may be done in prose.
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